S-1186.2
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5268
State of Washington
64th Legislature
2015 Regular Session
By Senate Health Care (originally sponsored by Senators Parlette, Kohl-Welles, Hatfield, Angel, and Fraser)
READ FIRST TIME 01/30/15.
AN ACT Relating to refilling eye drop prescriptions; and adding a new section to chapter 18.64 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 18.64 RCW to read as follows:
A pharmacist is authorized, without consulting a physician or obtaining a new prescription or refill from a physician, to provide for one early refill of a prescription for topical ophthalmic products if all of the following criteria are met:
(1) The refill is requested by a patient at or after seventy percent of the predicted days of use of:
(a) The date the original prescription was dispensed to the patient; or
(b) The date that the last refill of the prescription was dispensed to the patient;
(2) The prescriber indicates on the original prescription that a specific number of refills will be needed; and
(3) The refill does not exceed the number of refills that the prescriber indicated under subsection (2) of this section.
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